As the population of traditional college students continues to dwindle due to numerous factors (demographics, politics, alternative learning opportunities, etc.), lifelong learning has become more than a slogan for tertiary-level institutions that struggle to maintain viable cohorts of learners for the range of disciplines they house. A Google Scholar search for “lifelong learning” produces almost a million results, pulled from such publications as the International Journal of Lifelong Education, the Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, and Adult Education Quarterly.
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Creating an Academic Culture of Working to Live
I’m often asked how I succeed at managing work-life balance—or as I call it, “life-work balance”— and it stems from my childhood. My parents both worked as educators, and